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Name: CAPRICORNUS
Type: Fishing Vessel
Launched: 23/05/1898
Completed: 06/1898
Builder: Edwards Brothers
Yard: North Shields
Yard Number: 586
Dimensions: 194grt, 80nrt, 114.2 x 21.1 x 11.2ft
Engines: T3cyl (12, 20 & 32 x 22.5ins), 52nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Sunderland
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 109548
History:
06/1898 Grimsby & North Sea Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Grimsby
22/08/1914 Sank
Comments: 22/08/1914: Captured, torpedoed & sunk by a German
torpedo boat when 85 miles ExN from Spurn Point


Above photo copyright of Lancashire County Council